I hope Mr. Thibeault is timing me as well. I'll try to stop when I hear the beeps.
I want to start by thanking you for taking the time to come here. I think this is an important way for us as a committee getting going to get an overview of the things that are going on. I want to focus, at least in this round, on the things that are upcoming, things that we can maybe expect as a committee to be dealing with over the coming months.
First of all, obviously copyright is coming up fairly quickly. Could you give us a little bit of background? I believe this has been in the making for several years. There have been several incarnations of the copyright bill. Why is it so important to get this bill passed?